He lives in a world with flying cities. I think “I can see living auras” warrants about as much skepticism as “I have three gold medals from high school swim meets.” I.E., a significant amount if and only if he uses it for a pickup line.

“Summon Illusionary Spirits” would work just as well, if he shows the Sisterhood of The Traveling Poleaxe a vision of Giguzunder telling them to quit they trippin’. Or, y’know, just call him on the All-Seeing Eye Phone, since they’re actually working for the same boss-man as the Sisters.

Wait a minute…Gravies a Cleric fer goshsakes. Where’s his Summon Monster 1-5? Not quite an unbeatable army, but good for a distraction if nothing else. 4 or 5 D4 worth of Celestial Dogs can be a nice little hunting party.

Ah, Summon Monster and the clunky Hit Die system â€“ here’s another thing I don’t miss about the old D&D. ;) Besides, they rather seem to be 4th than 3rd edition, so assuming he’s a shaman, the only thing he would summon is the occasional nature spirit or his ghost animal. Whatever he is, he is obviously a primal class character. But he has no healing powers (as far as we know), so maybe he is something freakish, like a seeker, or something. That would explain the arrow thing too. Assuming this would be D&D, of course. ;)

I have to admit, in Shadowrun I’m rather fond of the spells “orgasm” and “orgy (multi-target version)” for crowd-control. The AoE is nice, and even though you can’t distinguish between friend and foe, at least your allies won’t hate you if they get caught in the crossfire.

No, G@tor, that’s the Mormons. (My husband grew up in the Witnesses, they’re not the monsters some folks make ‘em out to be. The Mormons, on the other hand, are downright obnoxious, at least in this town.)

Liked the “summon unbeatable army” thing. As well as the alt text. The reply to that ought to be, “Naw, not until I get 9th level spells.”

oh come on. think about it. if byron was the psychotic sonofabitch that you all seem to want him to be, would there be any interest in his character? as it stands, he’s an enigma. a pacifistic (well, kind of) warrior. it makes him more interesting.

he’s obviously got some issues with his past, and i’m sure he’ll be forced to confront them all in good time.

Come now! We obviously don’t want a character, we want a pair of axes with legs. This whole character development and motivations thing never flies in D&D, why would it work here? Character rationalization and reason fly out the window when xp or loot is involved.

to be honest, i’ve always felt that the characters in GA took more of an oldschool fantasy novel genre than a gaming one. part of the reason i enjoy it so much. sure, there are gaming references, but the characters, the world and the plot are deeply rooted in fantasy of a more traditional nature.

I personally am a fan of the ‘9 second pregnancy’ spell one of our magic users came up with. Works well on medium sized groups…. Though the men don’t seem to survive it too well….
Could end up with 20ish new saviours to send out and convert the populace.

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